London Biennale Hits Henderson, Nevada on Saturday July 21st 7-9 PM
Rainbow: 7 Colors 7 Artists will be a performance-based project executed by visual artists from diverse backgrounds who have chosen Las Vegas as their home. Most of the selected artists are painters by discipline and the performance on Saturday, July 21at the Pop Up Art House will be an extension of their studio practice. “Each artist will respond to the color assigned to them but each performance is not exclusive to the concept of color. The color is only a starting point to create a larger conversation that is yet to be heard and seen,” says artist and event coordinator Jevijoe Vitug.
The second London Biennale in Nevada satellite event will take over most of a commercial center with some performances happening within the gallery, a “fashion show” performance in the rear alley, a kitchen and sweetshop re-created in an adjacent warehouse space and performances at our Pop Up venue, Tempo located in the USA Diner & Lounge. There will be an outside bar for your enjoyment and iced tea courtesy of Iron Kettle Teas.
“Working with this year’s rainbow theme, artists of varying backgrounds and interests used a designated color as a launching pad for performance projects that include a commentary on the disposable nature of manufactured items (Eri King) and a cooking performance referencing futuristic wartime propaganda (Brent Holmes and Yasmina Chavez). Matthew Couper addresses painting’s obsessive trial-and-error nature by bringing to life Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s “Le Singe Peintre,” while JK Russ and Mina Kahn use film and fashion to present a journey from the neon corridors into the desert wilderness, bringing a bird woman to life. Filling out the rest of the rainbow is Noelle Garcia’s Converse/moccasin workshop, combining contemporary society with Native American tradition, and Darren Johnson’s exploration of miscommunication and rhetoric with Toshie McSwain.” – Kristen Peterson, Las Vegas Weekly
The London Biennale project was founded in 1998 by David Medalla, a Filipino conceptual artist based in London, who assigns the theme for each year’s biennale. The event aims to challenge and transform the notion of the art world ‘biennale’ as a large state or corporate-sponsored event with artists selected by curators based on their geographical location, citizenship, nationality, race and ethnicity by throwing open borders and encouraging a more intimate and community-based dialogue between the artists and audiences. Over the years, the London Biennale has expanded with simultaneous satellite events taking place in Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Berlin, New York, Boston and Las Vegas.
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